Language is the Great Gift that distinguishes human beingsfrom other Creatures
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work?
Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct?
Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"?
If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list.

This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English.
After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is organized in the most useful way possible-by error type, such as "Problem Pronouns" or "Mixing up Words that Sound the Same."
You choose how to work your way through, either sequentially or in the order most relevant to you. Each unit contains tests at the end to help you reinforce what you've learned.

Table of Contents:
-- Foreword 17
-- Introduction: How Do We Learn to Speak Correctly? 21
-- Pretest 27
-- Grammar Review 31
Chapter 1 Perplexing Pronouns 55
Chapter 2 Vexing Verbs 79
Chapter 3 Ambiguous Agreements 105
Chapter 4 Mangled Modifiers 123
Chapter 5 Problem Prepositions 143
Chapter 6 Confused Connections 151
Chapter 7 Puzzling Plurals 163
Chapter 8 Mixing up Words That Sound the Same 169
Chapter 9 Mixing up Words That Look the Same 181
Chapter 10 Mixing up Words Whose Meanings Are Related 197
Chapter 11 Made-up Words 215
Chapter 12 Wasteful Words and Infelicities 221
Chapter 13 Mispronounced Words 227
-- Review Tests 235
-- Index 249
-- About the Author and Editor 255